“If we want to give people more control over their data, it’s clear to me that doubling down on individual rights isn't sufficient.” HAI fellow @kingjen explains why we need to consider collective solutions, such as data intermediaries. https://
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Data Intermediaries: Collective Solutions Beyond Individual Rights
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Latest Digital Governance Post Highlights Key Challenges
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Our latest digital governance post is just a drop in the bucket.
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Can AI Chatbots Help Combat Loneliness in Young People?
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In September, I met @renate
, former CEO of Tinder, who was focused on the problem of loneliness in young people, who she felt had been failed by dating apps. Here is the story of her chatbot Meeno, in @FTMag
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How Work Shapes Culture: Lessons for AI Era
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One repeated finding in clever large-scale studies like this one is that what we do shapes who we are: cultures that grow rice really are more collectivist than wheat farmers, because rice farming requires collective work & wheat does not. I wonder how today’s work impacts us.
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Organizing for AI: Moving Beyond Requests to Action
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Some of us have been saying this for years! And it's one of the reasons we chose to organize, not entreat.
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Cloud Contracts Enabling Mass Population Surveillance Systems
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Yes, definitely. And what cloud/vendor contracts might be hosting/facilitating the surveillance that enables access to such data across an entire population?
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Future Job Stimulus Programs: Economic Policy Ideas
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Idea for future job stimulus programs. https://t.co/uIbVgPKIqm pic.twitter.com/XQoQmsJIWe
— Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 4 avril 2024Idea for future job stimulus programs.
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Ambassador Rice and Kratsios Join Stanford HAI as Distinguished Fellows
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Just announced: @AmbassadorRice and @MichaelKratsios have joined @StanfordHAI as Distinguished Visiting Fellows. They will contribute to HAI’s research efforts, exploring AI's global implications and understanding the fundamentals of human-centered AI.
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Tech Worker Ethics and Organized Opposition Movements
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I don't understand the point of this comment, except to be dismissive of urgently needed opposition based on its lack of novelty. The long history of ethical organizing among tech workers is important and something we learned from and were fortified by. And something I touched
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Mapping AI Tools and Accountability Supply Chains
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I agree with this critique. But I don't agree that mapping precisely the tools and pretexts used, their supply chains/links of culpability, is a distraction, or itself causes the projection of culpability onto the 'machine' (echoing exactly the logics of these systems/narratives